Marseille, France, Nov 21, 2017 / 00:08 am
At age 113, Sister André is one of the oldest religious sisters in the world.
According to French newspaper Le Parisien, Sister André is the oldest person in France. She told the newspaper that this “very much surprised me because I never even thought about it.”
Sister André, who is blind, currently resides in the Sainte-Catherine-Labouré retirement home for religious in Toulon, a city in southeast France near the Mediterranean.
She was born Lucile Randon on Feb. 11, 1904, in the town of Alès, about 140 miles northwest of Toulon.